FAA Shutdown Means Workers Must Pay To Work

The Prof said:

public payroll is about to suffer a slashing never seen from schenectady to sacramento with almost every park and township in between

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in the next few years, the seiu's and afscme's are gonna lose an awful lot of members

and their dues

party on, progressives

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justabubba said:

i missed what your post has to do with the operation of the FAA
would you please explain the connection

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AdamT said:

The unions have a stranglehold on the economy?

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justabubba said:

you seem unable to appreciate that a clean bill - one without any reference to subsidies or union rights - was ****canned by the republicans. despite that such a clean bill would have again funded the FAA so it could perform its important work
given that declination to vote on a clean bill, one can only conclude the republican interests necessarily had to be about subsidies and/or union rights

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Gill said:

You seem unable to appreciate that a bill to fund the FAA was ****canned by the Dems, despite that such a bill would have put thousands of workers back on the job and billions into the treasury.

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Given their disinclination to vote on a funding bill, one can only conclude that the dems interests necessarily had to be about bowing to their union benefactors and paymasters.

See how much fun that is...

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justabubba said:

at the cost of rescinding the existing rights of the airline employees to have union representation



they did value the rights of the employees to be represented by unions, and protected those rights by voting to prohibit the elimination of such representation
and we now find ourselves without an effective FAA because the republicans refused to address the clean bill which would fund FAA operations

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justabubba said:

it can't be about the subsidies
there was an attempt to pass a clean bill, to allow the FAA to receive its funding. that 'clean' bill eliminated any providions for elimination of union representation. it also contained no provision for the elimination of transit subsidies
Senate plan to end FAA shutdown falls apart : Kitsap Sun

the cost of the subsidy program is $200 million annually. that is the amount the FCC loses weekly when it is prevented from receiving ticket taxes
it makes no fiscal sense to give up $200 million a week to "save" $200 million per year


the dems are refusing to take union rights away from employees who now have them
as was pointed out above, there was an attempt to pass a clean bill to fund the FAA but that attempt was scuttled by the republicans
appears the republicans are willing to give up $200 million in weekly revenues to "save" $200 million per year in transit subsidies
but it gets worse. we are now expecting essential employees to cover their own work costs. the federal employee should NEVER be expected to subsidize the federal government
and the 'family friendly' republicans are willing to allow the 4,000 laid off wage employees to suffer while this goes unresolved; likewise the 70,000 employees laid off by the contractors who have received "stop work" orders
few will understand how expensive a stop work order is for the government to issue. when the work resumes, the government will have to pay for all the costs incurred during the stoppage, plus the additional monies required to re-start the project. that overhead, rental/lease expense, shrinkage of materials ... every cost the contractor would normally incur, except the direct labor wages ... will be passed on to the taxpayer as added expense of the job. like the additional ticket prices delta is now pocketing because the FAA is unable to collect them, this will be gravy to the construction companies

this is another in a long series of the republicans acting in a way opposing the wage earners' interests

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apdst said:

Why are we giving subsidies to an airline? A better question: why are you ok with it?

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apdst said:

Why are we giving subsidies to an airline? A better question: why are you ok with it?

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Deuce said:

Because some more remote communities would never have airline service without these subsidies.

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On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it.

Federal statistics reviewed by The Associated Press show that in 2010, just 227 passengers flew out of Ely while the airline got $1.8 million in subsidies. The travelers paid $70 to $90 for a one-way ticket. The cost to taxpayers for each ticket: $4,107.

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